new sign for the new shop! As things tend to go, the minor remodel I started last month on my new shop space that I thought would take a couple weeks is still not quite completed. Something to do with…

Here at Home and Range, we are pleased as punch to invite you to our holiday open house in partnership with Montezuma Land Conservancy (MLC) and Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project (MORP) on Friday Dec. 2nd, 4-8p and Saturday December 3rd, 11a-6p. WHY is…

Here in Southwest Colorado we have our own special relationship with the word “table.” Beloved Mesa Verde, or “Green Table,” stretches out broad and bold from every angle, steadily collecting sunset center pieces for millions of years now. The Mesa…

Something about summer flowing by seems to make the days feel both lazy and speedy. A hot afternoon can drag on forever but then those lovely weekends in the mountains just fly by. Summer may never again feel as luxurious…

That brown crumbly mixture of minerals, organic matter, gases, liquids and countless tiny organisms better known as soil, is a dynamic ecosystem that supports life on Earth. Not only is it a medium for plant growth, it also stores, supplies…

Growing a garden often seems a little mysterious. One year the tomatoes thrive and you’re making sauce hand-over-fist. The next year you hardly get a blossom even though you went about growing them in exactly the same way. It’s a…

farm-fresh baby bok choy piled high at the Cortez Farmers Market This is one of my favorite mid-summer recipes. It doesn’t heat up the kitchen, is quick and easy for those days that go long and it highlights fresh ingredients…

near Villa Mañihuales, Chile I’m back in the studio again, all fresh after three weeks in Patagonia and working with some new perspectives. Travel is good for that, right? Giving you a new look at the big wide world and…

hello sweethearts! Pretty much everything we do here at Home + Range has been inspired by this place where we’re headquartered – our edge of the Colorado Plateau here in southwest Colorado. My artwork and design ideas are drawn directly…

It’s all white and cold here in southwest Colorado. White and cold with a big blue sky but besides house plants and pine trees not much in the way of green. I’ve been thumbing through garden catalogs, thinking wistfully of…

THIS FALL I finished out my last summer of farm work, a bittersweet ending to almost three decades of wonderful but demanding work and way of life. My body is glad to be putting the hard physical part behind me,…